Senior Specialist - Shutdown Planning & Scheduling

About the role

First Quantum is hiring a Senior Specialist for Shutdown Planning & Scheduling in Solwezi. The role covers building and controlling shutdown schedules, optimizing them, coaching the Shutdown Planning team, supporting shutdown execution and maintaining scheduling standards.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and control integrated shutdown schedules in Microsoft Project, including WBS, activity logic, milestones, calendars, constraints and critical paths
• Produce fully integrated schedules across Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Operations, Projects and Contractors, compliant with corporate standards and governance
• Optimize schedules to shorten shutdown duration while keeping safety and quality, balance resources, identify bottlenecks and build recovery scenarios
• Coach, mentor and train the Shutdown Planning team, design training programmes and support succession planning
• Maintain progress updates, monitor critical path activities, produce daily reports, dashboards, S-curves and look-ahead schedules, and keep schedule baselines
• Develop and maintain scheduling standards, templates, coding structures, calendars and reporting formats

Required profile

• Minimum 10 years of experience in maintenance planning and shutdown scheduling
• Demonstrated experience scheduling complex plant shutdowns in mining or heavy industry
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline
• Preferred: Maintenance Planning & Scheduling certification (SMRP or equivalent)

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Project and advanced Microsoft Excel
• Strong understanding of Critical Path Method
• Preferred: CMMS systems (Pronto, SAP, Oracle, Maximo), Power BI and Power Query